To facilitate the development and distribution of software enabling
technologies for high performance computing we have set up a
National Software Exchange (NSE) for the High Performance Computing
and Communications community.

This project is being funded by NASA and is a collaborative effort
coordinated through the NSF S&T Center CRPC by the following individuals:
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Geoffrey Fox, Syracuse University
Ken Kennedy, Rice University
Jim Pool, Caltech
Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory

Abstracts: Please send abstracts (10-20 lines) of your lecture by
Nov. 15, 1994. Notice of acceptance will be given by
Nov. 30. All participants, whether giving a talk or not,
have the possibility of sending an abstract of their
work on the topic of the conference. The collection
of abstracts will be available at the conference.

Conference fee: DM 50,- (to be paid after arrivel)

The first ten GAMM-Seminars were held at Kiel in 1984, 1986-
1994. The corresponding proceedings have been published
in the series "Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics"
(Vieweg, Braunschweig; vols. 10, 16, 21, 23, 30, 31, 41).

I thought that some NA Digest readers may wish to respond to the
enclosed survey by Project GNU:

Project GNU of the Free Software Foundation is conducting a survey to
determine the kinds of mathematical software commonly utilized by scientists
and mathematicians. Your answers will help us to determine the programming
tasks we present to our volunteers. This will ultimately result in a more
complete set of math programs and subroutines available as free software.

Please answer the following questions with regard to scientific,
mathematical, and/or statistical software:

1. What packages are commonly used?

2. What programs and subroutines are desired, but not available?

3. What freeware currently exists?

4. Where else can we ask these questions?

Please give as much detail as you can, including package name, author,
language, and where it can be found.

I come from the mainland of China. I obtained my Ph.D in July 1991 in China.
I hope to have a chance to do my research abroad, so I am therefore looking
for a possible PostDoc or Research Assistant position.

The Department of Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has
finally established its own FTP and WWW servers:

Files from the FTP server can be accessed via anonymous ftp to
ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Address: 131.159.0.198) in the directory
/pub/science/math/tum. Eventually all research reports published by
the Department of Mathematics should be available as PostScript documents.
Currently a few papers can be found in subdirectories named after their
respective authors.

The URL of the WWW home page of the Department of Mathematics is
http://www.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/. It provides an entry point
from wich a variety of information about the Department of Mathematics
can be accessed. However, most contributions are in German thus far.

Applied Parallel Research (APR), in cooperation with the Swiss Scientific
Computing Center (CSCS-ETHZ), offers a four-day workshop on High Performance
Fortran (HPF). This will be an intensive training session with hands-on
experience using APR's HPF compilation system, xhpf. Attendees are encouraged
to prepare their own application codes for parallelization over a distributed
memory workstation cluster during the workshop.

This workshop will feature a programming tutorial on MPP systems and HPF, and
offer an opportunity to gain experience parallelizing real Fortran
applications using APR's newest parallelization tools. Ample time has been
allocated to allow each attendee, working at their own pace and with the
instructors and CSCS staff, to parallelize and evaluate real benchmark
programs and their own application codes. CSCS will provide access to MPP
systems on which to run parallelized codes.

The instructors will be John Levesque and Richard Friedman of Applied
Parallel Research. The workshop languages will be English and Fortran.

Day 4 All Day
WORKSHOP
o Parallelization of Attendee's Codes or Other Examples
Using APR's Parallelization Tools.

Spaces in this workshop are limited and will be available on a first come,
first served basis. It is recommended that you reserve a place by contacting
APR as soon as possible. The tuition fee for this four-day workshop will be
$1500 US. A reduced fee of $1250 applies to organizations with active FORGE
licenses. Full payment must be received at APR by September 16, 1994 to hold
a place.

Requests for further information and advanced registration should be directed
to APR at the addresses given below. CSCS will provide lists of recommended
hotels in the area.

Applied Parallel Research, Inc., based in California, is a leading developer
of Fortran analysis and parallelization tools for supercomputing
applications. Its FORGE family of tools include interactive FORGE 90 and
Explorer, and the batch automatic parallelizers DPF and XHPF. APR is an
active participant in the High Performance Fortran Forum (HPFF). Further
information about APR and its FORGE products is available over the Internet,
via finger forge@netcom.com | more

The workshop host, CSCS, the Swiss National Scientific Computing Center, is
part of the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), and is located in
Manno, near Lugano in the Ticino region of Switzerland. Its basic mission is
to provide computing services and consulting to Swiss universities, research
institutes, and commercial companies. CSCS contributes its own research and
development and education projects in High Performance Computing. This
workshop is part of CSCS' Parallel Computer Systems and Education Laboratory,
ParEdLab.

The address of the anonymous FTP server that contains information about
conferences, preprints, etc. concerning interval computations, as well as
the working version of the Fortran 77 package INTLIB, has been changed.

At the Interdisciplinary Project Center for Supercomputing (IPS)
of the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland,
we anticipate the availability of funding for a two-year postdoc position
linked to a project on iterative methods for solving very large (linear or
nonlinear) systems of equations. We have a special interest in Lanczos-type
methods, but other approaches may be considered too. Principal investigator
is Martin H. Gutknecht, the head of IPS.
The project aims at both theoretical work and at the production of
reliable state-of-the-art software. Applicants should be qualified and
interested in both these aspects of the project. The earliest possible
starting date is October 1, but a postponing of several months is possible.
Partial funding for a graduate student working in the same area may
also become available.
The Interdisciplinary Project Center for Supercomputing (IPS)
was founded in 1988 to support and promote supercomputing at ETH Zurich.
Its service duties include the individual support of supercomputers users
and software developers at ETH, and the occasional organization of courses.
Besides, research in numerical analysis, computational chemistry, computational
physics, and other application areas is performed, partially in cooperation
with other institutes. IPS also has a well equipped visualization lab.
A wide variety of high-performance and parallel computers are
accessible: NEC SX-3, Cray Y-MP, Cray T3D, Paragon, Parsytec, MasPar,
workstation clusters, etc. However, the US Department of Commerce imposes
restrictions on the usage of some of these computers. In particular, accounts
cannot be opened for citizens of the People's Republic of China, Iran, Iraq,
Lybia, North Korea, Syria, Vietnam, countries from the former Soviet union,
and a number of other formerly communist countries.

Wayne State University Department of Computer Science Faculty Positions

The Wayne State University Department of Computer Science invites
applications and nominations for several tenure-track positions: two
in computer graphics and one in high performance computing. Candidates
from related areas in computer science or computer engineering will
also be considered.

Candidates should have a Ph.D. in computer science/engineering or a
closely related field, a strong interest in and commitment to both
research and teaching and the potential for obtaining external research
funding. Applications from minority and female candidates are
especially encouraged.

Wayne State University, located in Detroit's Cultural Center, is an
urban, comprehensive research university serving 35,000 students. The
Department of Computer Science has fourteen faculty members,
approximately 75 Ph.D., 350 Masters and 350 undergraduate students.
The faculty have many ties to local industries. Several research
projects are currently being funded by these industries and federal
agencies.

Applicants should send a letter of intent, a statement of research and
teaching interest, a resume with the names of at least three
references, their addresses (including e-mail address) and
telephone/fax numbers to: